This is 100% True. The post link : https://www.facebook.com/groups/224160944667634/posts/1369472160136501/

This is 100% true. I used to teach next door and so I know from the beat-sound of nattavangam and yes, it is wrong nattavangam. Infact, I personally know a few people in my family as well that are in bharatanatyam but could not take my class(b’coz i was far off or timing was issue and are also victim of this fraud from alpana jacob). That family has requested a full refund from Ms. alpana jacob as well. I personally have few students from this individual ms.jacob that have gone through similar trauma so to say.

Imagine taking trainings for 10 yrs of your life, blindly believing in somebody and literally learning useless/creative bharatanatyam without proper adavus or jathi or names of any of it. The dances were not qualified for any awards either as per this parent upon submissions for bharatanatyam categories with a strict feedback that creativity in adavus are required or as is adavus is required/either. Their personal growth was harmed because of fraud dances. Internally it is harmful.

Ms. shweta shah stopped by at my classes too off-late (after several times of re-scheduling her timings with me) and she wants to do production dances and also complete her training. Since we had to downsize due to several catastrophic damages and criminal fraud in my company, we had to ask Ms.Shweta to wait until we have her levels. So, currently as per the conversation that I had with Ms. Shweta, she is taking online classes with her own teacher in chennai and will join us for production.

Ms Shweta is taking mentorship classes(online and in-person if in city, probably once in 1-2months ) with me and often travels. As you know, I take limited batches because of my association in other fields(www.hetaln.com) and so if the several batches clear their graduations (one by one every other year) then we have to wait until our other batches reach a level for certain individuals. We cannot speed up the existing batch’s involvement just for the sake of Anantha Classical Dance & Theater Production Series or compromise on their learning!

It is also correct that several of my own staff people(who re-united with me not knowing that i am in DFW area) have tried to take ms. alpana’s drop in class until they found me and they all had similar feedbacks about dances at aarti school of dance or with ms.alpana herself. Most of these dancers that i am talking about are refreshing students which means they have done quite some level of bharatanatyam and know it well when it is not right! First they thought that probably they missed something and this post on facebook triggered the topic; they all were shocked that they were right about Ms. alpana and aarti school of dance. this was during this post. It is true! This post is driven by their personal experiences and thus the talks and it is true.

Some other lady from aarti school of dance named Rakshita had applied to my dance school too and we had refused her because we had freezed all our recruits and refreshers programs due to recent criminal fraud in my company and her clear message was that she wants to complete her Bharatanatyam. We had requested details such as biodata and clips and those clearly mention that Ms. Rakshita(who is now instructor at aarti school of dance) have not completed her trainings. This communication was in Dec/and early this year-2023 as hetal reconnected with all admin messages to everybody and prior to this in 2019 via text/bharatanatyam training to be completed and bharatanatyam newbie class. This is an indication that this company hires untrained artists at the cost of years and years of fees of parents for something as simple as dance that does not have any value. This isn’t the first time that this pattern has occurred. This creates a very negative impact on student’s life and mindset.

Ms. Shweta has visited 2 other dance schools in irving as well. this i am told about from one of the admin that had their initial talk with Ms. shweta on fb. I do not know if Shweta will join us or not. It is irrelevant for me if shweta will join me or not. Shweta is not my Elite and neither she is my student. Once in bluemoon she takes those mentorship classes per hour under my Reachh Mediaa program and that is it. Ms. Shweta is not my anything as a matter of fact. Our reachh mediaa program offers mentorship classes by hourly and monthly or by packages (with and without dance). It depends on utilization.

I have several people like Ms. Shweta who buy my ad-hoc mentorship classes once a while for consult and they all pay for hourly consult with invoices and such company protocols. Nonetheless, I am very busy with my life at hetaln.com.

My people will never insult anybody and they hold much more value in respect in each word and for everybody. They are not ordinary people. They are extremely successful in all walks of life with families and they work for me only because love of doing right is reason and personal growth in performing arts and other expertise under me. They speak well because of their upbringing and their workplace environments. they speak truth too and if something makes them curious or wonderous then that’s what they will precisely talk about and with all due respect! And that is it. I cannot stop them from doing so, it is freedom to be themselves and speak their mind without harming company’s integrity. Their contribution to my company is exceptional and they DON’T EVER lie. Motive is simple, i am the maker of their first generation!

My teams take my loads when required and thus are my Elites too. Thus, status of Pre.Elite or Elite is not assigned to just anybody. It is a very responsible and accountable level that is in position to lead and be accountable for in my absence. It is for those who take responsibility of their actions and follow through protocols of performing arts as well as laws as applicable in speciality. These individuals are trained under me to replace me and talk on behalf of me and being respectful is extremely required. My Elites have proof of everything that they speak about. They don’t have any reason to lie. If they have been there, they have been there and they have a proof of it. Period! They are one of those people who will work hard and smart too. We train them to be like me or better than me!

It is what it is. If they have personal experience, they will speak of it and they have proof of it of their classes or attendance/either. It is irrelevant to me about their personal experience with anybody(this specifically if it was prior to me).

At this point and at this moment until futher notice, I do not wish to collab with anybody that is lower than my achievements or cadre (or lead or buy any companies) due to recent incidents in my company such as criminal fraud and other catastrophic financial damages that has made my life extremely busy.

So yes, i am very busy trying to clear the backlog that has affected 22 artist under me, existing company activities worth 1000s of $$ and my own personal work has been compromised to extremely high levels.

Precisely, I am being absolutely upfront about this, I don’t get anything from such collab.

How is that dance school so old has not achieved anything and their artists are way below average or are often prepared by other dance teachers (and are often transfers from other out of state students of other teachers and their dance level goes down in dance because of arti school of dance’s dance activities while their own scratch students are horrible in performances). All the dances of those individuals from aarti school of dance/alpana were rejected right off with lack of adavus and jathis. This after 10years of classes and without missing a single class.

I am paid artist from 1993-94 from the age of 13 and several of my own artist (that are exclusively trained under me from scratch) are at such an achievement level that they are way ahead of any of company members of aarti school of dance. From age of 19, i am Bharatanatyam and Indian Folk dancer as well as educator/director with full set of graduates under my own teachers. So certain companies don’t bring anything valueable to me.

Aarti school of dance’s one week (classes) is my one hour of commercial gig (that’s just me without any of my elites) and in Bharatanatyam itself and I dance margam, pure bharatanatyam in multiple styles because of my specialities level by level and style by style. We also do other gigs such as creative Bharatanatyam, fusions and many such creative dance pieces. Most of which have won awards that benefit students as well.

I feel it as my social need/responsibility to clear any misunderstandings or any issues that might come to my notice, and this applicable only if, my people have participated in certain chats (because of their personal experiences) prior to joining me or prior to “knowing” that I am in DFW. This waives me off from any legal obligation from any of this company members. It is true!

my company however has nothing to do with either alpana or aarti school of dance. There are several locations that we have shared next door for years together from carrollton, alpha midway and west frisco. My locations remain constant and we still offer classes at all these locations for pretty much all our services(till date) and yes it is true, their locations change drastically with huge travel time distances! I wonder how this company is able to change their locations so often! New to me.

There were times (in prior years) when alpana had ordered wholesale order (wholesale order – min order of 50 costumes or min billing 2500$+shipping custom design by genre and category) from my wholesale costume brand and there were times when I needed a costume in emergency (as my shipment did not arrive on time and i had commercial gig) and so i rented as well from alpana too. And yes, things do happen in company’s timelines and I will clear it if it pertains to me or my people or my company so that my elites are not misjudged or their work is not credited to somebody else as they all work hard to contribute to my company and growth.

I personally don’t have any beef with anybody. period. It is not my responsibility anything more than this.

Our modus operandi is about personal growth(this includes earning as well in every area of expertise) of artist and students and to make their performing valuable to the right audiences and thus my company/artists themselves have achieved so much that I just don’t care about low and small goals or mindsets.

Your one life goal is just one of my field — Hetal Nagaraj.

The post copies are as below and this is the only incident that has come to my notice and all of above suffices :